MSCP- AI Operations- VP

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP) is a leading middle-market private equity platform, focusing primarily on North America. MSCP invests primarily in control transactions via founder-led recapitalizations, growth equity investments, industry roll-ups, management buyouts, corporate carve-outs and platform builds.

Since 1986, the firm has achieved top quartile returns and created value through management and operational improvements, value add oversight, strategic add on acquisitions and thoughtful capitalization. Throughout its 30+ year history, MSCP has maintained a consistent middle-market focus, investing in companies across a broad range of industries including business services, industrial, consumer, health care, and education.

MSCP is currently investing out of Fund VIII, a $3.2B fund that closed in 2025 and is now actively being deployed.

As a middle-market private equity investment team with direct access to the capabilities and reputation of a leading global financial services firm, the team brings outsized resources to companies to help them thrive within their industries. The Morgan Stanley brand has been instrumental in attracting and retaining CEO’s, board members, and senior executives whose talent and experience often exceed that which otherwise might be available to middle-market companies. MSCP can provide capital markets insights to drive proactive balance sheet management, introductions to potential bolt-on acquisition targets, and proprietary knowledge regarding strategic exit alternatives.

Job Description:
The VP, Portfolio Operations, AI will play a key role in driving AI-enabled value creation across the firm's portfolio companies. This individual will be responsible for analyzing business processes, identifying opportunities for operational efficiencies, and developing strategies leveraging AI/GenAI to enhance the company's performance. Partnering closely with the portfolio company’s leadership team, and other leaders within Portfolio Ownership, the VP will assess how emerging AI technologies can be leveraged to automate workflows, optimize decision-making, and unlock new growth opportunities. This role requires a strategic, data-driven leader, with a strong understanding of AI applications and business transformation, as well as the ability to develop and execute innovative solutions that maximize enterprise value.

Responsibilities
Partner with investment teams to evaluate and underwrite deals through the lens of AI, data, and product strategy
Assess target companies’ AI capabilities and product maturity
Analyze how AI can drive value creation, efficiency, and competitive advantage Build and refine models and investment cases with minimal oversight
Support deal execution with clear, tech-focused narratives and stakeholder materials
Conduct business and financial analysis to inform investment insights
Help portfolio companies identify and implement high-impact AI and product
initiatives
Evaluate product strategies, roadmaps, and experimentation practices
Collaborate with executives, product leads, and technical teams across MSCP and its portfolio
Translate technical concepts into commercially relevant insights
Track emerging trends in AI and digital innovation to inform firmwide strategy
Contribute to internal efforts that embed AI thinking across the firm
 

Interfaces with:
This role will report directly to the Managing Director while collaborating closely with other leaders across the firm (both in the portfolio operations team and investors) in addition to senior leadership across portfolio companies to drive technology adoption efforts.

Qualifications:
Strategy Consulting Experience: The ideal candidate has 2-6+ years of
experience from a top-tier management consulting firm, in a post-MBA role, with a demonstrated track record of success.
Relevant Industry Exposure: The ideal candidate has experience working in or
partnering with either business services or consumer services organizations, from consulting or industry.
Relevant Functional Exposure: In addition to consulting experience, the ideal
candidate will have a proven track record of leading AI strategy and adoption
projects in relevant businesses to the MSCP portfolio.
Structured & Logical Thinking: Superior critical thinking skills are critical to this
role, including the ability to identify and define problems, collect data, establish facts and demonstrate a “nose for value” to discern what is important and draw valid conclusions.
Analytical Aptitude: person must possess the ability to run and manage highly
complicated quantitative analysis in a defect-free manner to support strategic
recommendations. A top-notch Excel toolkit is required.
Executive Presence: Effective interpersonal and communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate with both the C-Suite and Technical Leadership.
Recognizing the level of exposure to senior executives that accompanies this role, the right candidate must have excellent influencing skills, plus an exceptional ability to build relationships.
Technical Aptitude and Curiosity: The right fit candidate has a genuine passion for realizing the potential of AI, as well as the technical understanding of its capabilities to effectively influence both business and technical stakeholders.

Personal Qualifications:
The candidate selected for this position will be a creative, out-of-the-box thinker who is intellectually curious with a demonstrated interest in learning. This person will also need to be a self-motivated, high-energy individual who can easily function in a high demand, performance-driven environment. He/she must be accustomed to working on multiple tasks in parallel. This professional must demonstrate strong leadership skills, best demonstrated by the individual’s ability to gain credibility with team members and senior management.

The successful candidate will:

• Be modest in nature, recognizing the accomplishments of the team before the individual
• Be highly motivated and possess vision and enthusiasm
• Be comfortable acting as an individual contributor and as a team manager (Player/Coach)
• Understand how to deliver on short time frames and be committed to meeting deadlines “no matter what”
• Communicate in an open and honest way that quickly builds trust and respect
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit
• Be comfortable on his/her feet making presentations

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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